World of Warships Blitz - Swedish destroyer "Halland" review 

Halland / DM / CV.... Nightmare division

@@FunandGameswithTerryfor everyone, everything, other than the legendary el bonk

Halland can't do all that much by itself. But pair up with someone to keep CVs at bay, and radar things, and suddenly you've got a deadly combo.

Maybe pair up with my shima lol All the guns and torps @terry

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And make Ranger and Hiryu even more impossible to play.

Nothing but a clusterfuck of weevees can counter Saipan

@@tajp917 weevees, floridas and ises

Dutch cruises are fun at T7

Agreed. It's a very different style for me, more team-support oriented. I could imagine though that for some who get their satisfaction from large damage numbers, they'll be disappointing. You can rack up floods in mid-tier easily, but in top tiers, it's getting a lot more difficult.

There are some non-Swedish DDs in the line, not to be forgotten, but I think the upper tiers are all Swedes

Yeah the only non Swede is tier II. The tier III Romulus is Italian built but served in the Swedish navy right after its completion but I would still call her a Swedish ship just like Tashkent was built in Italy but served in the Soviet navy.

@@stevenmoore4612 pretty sure neither klas horn and visby are Swedish

@@tajp917 No they are both Swedish ships. They’re all Swedish except for tier II.

Nice luck! :)

From the numbers, the T9 is very similar to the T10. I've done a review on the T7 earlier: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UTkJY4NBGn8.html

the rest of the battle was boring, so I just used it for the opening sequence. But that's the power of Halland - no-fly zone. I actually should have used my defensive AA for the torpedo planes, misplay by me there, fortunately CV didn't drop us from the sides.

Östergötland looks pretty similar in stats. I might take a look at some point, but need to also mix it up a bit first :)

This has been a nasty surprise for lots of DDs. Once people get used to it, it'll be less effective, but right now, it's just hilarious. I can see the "oh crap" expression every time.

I'd love to, but I'm a terrible CV player. I'll need to get better (a lot) before I can even attempt higher tier carriers.

@@FunandGameswithTerry ah okay no problem, I’m also not a great CV player haha

Right, and I think one of the earlier German torpedo boats has a forward-mounted single launcher as well

@@FunandGameswithTerry 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I haven't played Khaba myself, so can't really say how well the HE works. He may not have expected to be shooting at Gearing, given that he smoked the second he saw us. Still feeling for that poor Gearing.

Also floods... lots of possibilities.

See, it was worth keeping him alive. Although Mino AA is no joke either, but Halland is better.

Battle honours on the tech tree ships can be a frustrating grind. They often take longer to complete than the XP grind to the next ship. I did that on the Roon, and boy that wasn't fun :) What I often do is move on to the next tier in the regular grind, but then do a "honours run" with a second commander. For example, I'm currently at the Seattle, and I'll probably complete the honours there before I move on to Worcester, but I've got a second commander on the Brooklyn atm completing the honours there, who will then move on and stay at Cleveland. I'm not planning to keep Seattle, but Cleveland I will. One thing to mention is that when you sell a ship and buy it again, the blueprint research will remain, i.e. I sold the Brooklyn before on the first grind, but bought it again later, I don't need to put in blueprints again - important if you're short on ship slots.

@@FunandGameswithTerry Thank you that is good advise

Other good things when you sold and buy after the same tech tree ship, you can update the elite bonus. Good thing if you want to change the elite bonus without use gold (you loose silver, but more easy to win for free in the game). For the honor mission. When I have grind the line, the honor mission are upgraded on the line, just before I unlock the République... Good thing to go back on the line after more of experience. For the Lyon it's really easy to make the honor mission on the resapaw mode or blitz royal. Because you have a lot of this mode in t7😉 The honor mission to kill XX cruisers is a joke. It's easy but hard, because you don't kill one or more cruiser in random battles by games. In resapaw, easy, really. Make on one weekend on my Lyon.

Neptune is a huge step from Edinburgh. Lots and lots of torps, and the guns finally start to kick. Have fun. Probably my favourite T9.

Wooster is pretty easy kill if you stay at range with Friesland tbh, the velocity and trajectory are trash for hitting DD past 5km

Yeah, it's a perpetual problem I already have in Seattle. Positioning is key in these ships, if you can catch a DD up close, they're toast.

Not as much as with other DDs I'd assume, given that the torp alpha damage is relatively low - they're basically carrier-dropped torps, and some higher tier ships have pretty good torpedo damage reduction. I'd still take it, since nothing else makes much sense.

Nvm just saw that other comment lol

Yeah, I totally forgot about the lower tier German DDs, and I don't think I ever played Romulus

That's why I've been so focused on setting expectations during the review - I don't see this as a ship that can easily do 100k damage consistently, but more as a ship that, if you have it on your team, is immensely useful. Just the AA and radar combo all but ensures a cap, you can escort friendly DDs, I would say I play her much more in the role I normally take in light cruisers.

@@FunandGameswithTerry So far, there's nothing that would make me consider Halland over simply using Friesland in a tier 10 platoon. Sure, Friesland is pretty vulnerable up close but it's not like Halland does much better in that aspect either.

I'm honestly surprised about how one tier and .4s of reload can change a ship from outgunning almost all her peers to being outgunned by everything that isn't Shimakaze and Somers.

I agree, Friesland is a monster (also, smoke), but not everyone has a T9 premium in port, whereas Östergötland & Halland are tech tree ships.

The Halland isn't outgunned by everything that isn't a Shimakaze or Somers, I don't know if you took the info from the video wrong or what.

Sorry for that, better luck next time... Not much he could do, coming under fire from half our team.

@terry maybe we can div you in the halland and my in the shima and we will stick together nobody can kill us lol

@@FunandGameswithTerry hi

Yep. It's only my Khaba if it's on my team :P

One of the lines I'm keen on grinding, although with Groningen in my port, less urgent

Well, I'm glad to be included then ;)

Good

pretty good, you?

@@FunandGameswithTerry it’s going fine thanks for asking

No satisfying crunch 😆

The line isn't a complete dumpster fire like Russian BB and British CA, but yeah they are kinda meh

They're meh if you're after damage, at least in higher tiers, when people are a bit more aware of DoT mechanics. But oh boy are they fun as support ships, which is a playstyle I quite enjoy.